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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Let's privatize her funeral': Film Director Ken Loach on Plans for Thatcher's Send-off
Film director Ken Loach gives his assessment of Margaret Thatcher, and offers a suggestion for her funeral.
"Margaret Thatcher was the most divisive and destructive Prime Minister of modern times.
Mass Unemployment, factory closures, communities destroyed this is her legacy. She was a fighter and her enemy was the British working class. Her victories were aided by the politically corrupt leaders of the Labour Party and of many Trades Unions. It is because of policies begun by her that we are in this mess today.
Other prime ministers have followed her path, notably Tony Blair. She was the organ grinder, he was the monkey.
Remember she called Mandela a terrorist and took tea with the torturer and murderer Pinochet.
How should we honor her? Lets privatize her funeral. Put it out to competitive tender and accept the cheapest bid. Its what she would have wanted."
"Margaret Thatcher was the most divisive and destructive Prime Minister of modern times.
Mass Unemployment, factory closures, communities destroyed this is her legacy. She was a fighter and her enemy was the British working class. Her victories were aided by the politically corrupt leaders of the Labour Party and of many Trades Unions. It is because of policies begun by her that we are in this mess today.
Other prime ministers have followed her path, notably Tony Blair. She was the organ grinder, he was the monkey.
Remember she called Mandela a terrorist and took tea with the torturer and murderer Pinochet.
How should we honor her? Lets privatize her funeral. Put it out to competitive tender and accept the cheapest bid. Its what she would have wanted."
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'Let's privatize her funeral': Film Director Ken Loach on Plans for Thatcher's Send-off (Original Post)
octoberlib
Apr 2013
OP
+1000. How about 2 toilets -- one out of Reagan's ashes right next to Maggie Thatcher's?
JDPriestly
Apr 2013
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Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)1. Petty, small minded and.... in this case....
...*utterly* appropriate.
Let the trickle-down commence.
K and R
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)2. She said she wanted to be cremated...
So cremate her.
Then mix her ashes into a ceramic.
Use the ceramic to make a toilet...
And mount that toilet in a tube station near Whitehall so everyone can pay their respects.
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)6. Now THAT would be the 'trickle-down' she deserves. n/t
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)7. +1000. How about 2 toilets -- one out of Reagan's ashes right next to Maggie Thatcher's?
Response to octoberlib (Original post)
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LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)4. Great idea!
Poppy, Cheney and shrub, you're next.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)5. Yes, they could make it a...
Pay Per Viewing.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)8. "Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?"
From the song "The Fletcher Memorial Home" by Pink Floyd from the album "The Final Cut".
toby jo
(1,269 posts)9. Ken, wish I could give you the power to make it happen.